First Encounters
A DigitalNZ Story by National Library of New Zealand Topics
This topic explores the first meetings between Pasifika peoples, Māori and European explorers. The resulting cultural interactions had a profound impact on indigenous societies and also define Aotearoa New Zealand today. SCIS no: 1894561
First known encounter between Māori and Europeans
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Teaching resource: First Collisions
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Discovery of New Zealand
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The Aotearoa History Show - Episode 3 | Early Encounters
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First contact: Fatal encounter remembered
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Māori reading a bible after contact with European Christian missionaries
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Captain Cook's chiefly gift
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Banks and Solander collection
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Te Horetā Taniwha
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Re-enactment of the landing of Captain Cook
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European ideas about Māori
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Tupaia
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Tolaga Bay
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Mercury Bay
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Gisborne
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Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough Sounds
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Māoriland memories
This newspaper article looks at the story behind stamps issued in honour of the 1906 New Zealand International Exhibition. One stamp in particular shows the landing of Captain Cook at Poverty Bay and outlines why Cook gave it that name.
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Marion du Fresne arrives in the Bay of Islands
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It turns our tipuna into cardboard caricatures
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The adventures of Captain Cook
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Pursuit of Venus: Infected by Lisa Reihana
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Lisa Reihana
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Cook statue
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Pursuit of Venus
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Dual name confirmed for Poverty Bay
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James Cook lands on the Coromandel
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Turanganui River
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Crook Cook” at Cook’s Plaza on Kaiti Hill Gisborne
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‘Crook Cook’ timeline
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Māori bodies
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One strange people, and another
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Cook’s arrival in Poverty Bay, Gisborne
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Gisborne’s ‘Crook Cook’ – the story behind the statue
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Meretoto / Ship Cove
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First contact
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The Rabbits
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Captain Cook memorial
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Aborigines and Europeans
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Ship’s bell
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A book describing Captain Cook's voyages
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Captain Cook’s Journal of the First Voyage
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Cook's journal
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Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay
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The perforated rock in Tolaga Bay, in New Zealand.
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Captain Cook with Māori in the Bay of Islands
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They have worries about our refugee status
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Captain Cook (1728 - 1779)
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First encounters (New Zealand)
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Apology demanded over 'imperial vanguard murderer' Cook
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Famous Explorers
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Pacific Navigation
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Why you might sidestep the histories and read the voices of the past
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European discovery of New Zealand
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Encounters – European voyaging and discovery
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Where Maori and Pakeha first met
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The first landing of Captain Cook
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Captain Cook lands in New Zealand
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How Captain Cook died
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Landing places of Captain Cook
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Captain Cook
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Souvenir of Captain Cook’s voyage
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European discovery of New Zealand
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Where Maori and Pakeha first met
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Tuia 250 Encounters
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Encounters - European voyaging and discovery
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Māori stories of arrival recognised
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Captain Cook not relevant to me or my people says protest leader
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The voyages of Captain James Cook
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Tū te Whaihanga
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War canoes at Tahiti
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"We can't sit back and let that be a shallow statement"
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250th anniversary of Cook’s arrival to celebrate dual heritage
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Different perspectives emerge as students research first encounters
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Tiwha, Tiwha Te Pō / Dark, Dark is the Night
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Paddles obtained on Cook’s first voyage
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Local historians reshape understanding of past
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The story of Tahitian navigator, Tupaia
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Tuia: 250 re-framing first contact
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French explorers
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Naming Cape Kidnappers / Te Kauwae-a-Māui
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A bird of great size
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First Encounters (New Zealand)
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A Hoe! School Journal Curriculum level: 2; June: 2018
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Tuia Mātauranga mobile app
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Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (TMCC3)
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First Encounters (New Zealand)
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Te Horetā’s nail (CC0002)
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Te taki, School Journal Reading level: Year 6; Part: 4; No: 3, 2009
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First Encounters Artwork
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He Whakaputanga, English
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Treaty of Waitangi
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Captain Cook Society
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One of three anchors abandoned by French navigatior François Marie de Surville when his ship, the St Jean Baptiste, was caught in a storm off Tokerau in Doubtless Bay.
Anchor
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
First contact of Aboriginal Australians with British colonisers
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The death of Captain Cook
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Tupaia's chart
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Captain Cook’s navigational instruments
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Charting Aotearoa
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